Aaron's Blog

Last Friday (15th February), we changed Aaron’s cot so it became a bed. We took both sides off and lowered the middle section where he lies on to make it into an actual bed. We didn’t do this for Ben when he was little but decided we would for Aaron as we can’t really afford to buy a new bed for him, and this was why we got the cot bed in the first place!

The first night wasn’t too bad in the end. It took a while for him to settle as Kelly tried to cuddle him instead of rocking him to sleep as he is getting too big and heavy for that now! He wouldn’t settle for ages, but finally did and went off to sleep. We put an old duvet down on the floor between him and Ben’s bed in case he fell out in the night, and we were lucky we did as a couple of times he fell out.  One time Kelly went in and he was sat on the duvet with his head leaning against his bed, fast asleep! So the next night Kelly rolled up a blanket and put down the one side of his bed that he could fall out of and it worked.

It has taken some time for him to go sleep each night since, and it was actually better the first few nights than it is now but he is also teething badly at the moment which doesn’t help. But most nights he has done very well for sleeping really. I thought he would be waking up a lot more than he has been.  He seems to like his new bed and he hasn’t been getting out in the night and walking around which was another thing that we were worried about.  He is doing very well! 😉